Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[ponce]

While I consider going to a contest with tools you don't know yet 
a very risky move, I can only empathize with some of the points 
expressed by Manu.

> We needed to mess with sc.ini for quite some time to get the 
> stars aligned
> such that it would actually compile and find the linker+libs.

Same problem here, I used DMD-Win64 only once since I don't 
remember the steps to get it to work (I think it involved 
changing some .lib and path in sc.ini).

> Debugging:
>
> Poor debugging experience wastes your time every 5 minutes.
> I can only speak for the Windows experience (since we failed to 
> get OSX
> working); there are lots of problems with the debugging 
> experience under
> visual studio...
> I haven't logged bugs yet, but I intend to.
> There were many instances of people wasting their time chasing 
> bugs in
> random places when it was simply a case of the debugger lying 
> about the
> value of variables to them, and many more cases where the 
> debugger simply
> refused to produce values for some variables at all.

This happened to me several times, so that I end up relying on 
writefln-debugging again. The fact that an IDE plugin exist at 
all is a huge acceptance factor in the workplace.